Fun fact: Whale bones were once commonly used to shape corsets, which at the time, were every day garments worn by both genders. That's probably how that guy was able to acquire one so easily.
On the People Vs Food Channel, do a try not to eat challenge with foods from Roald Dahl books and movies (e.g. Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
The guy who died from suffocating due to a plastic bag being over his head is the reason why plastic bags and packaging have warnings not to put them over your head.
BTW guys, when they said whalebone, they probably meant the kind that was used for corsets, which is slender and flexible. It's actually the baleen (the filtering membranes in the mouth) from the whale that they called "whalebone," not the skeletal structure.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate for the grenade guy. Old-timey grenades don't look like your stereotypical grenade of today, they are just heavy metal round balls, and the dude likely didn't know what it was, just some metal paperweight thing. That one is more sad than dumb.
I thought the 3rd guy would have gotten as far as dropping his invention down the chimney and then the grenade exloding when the pin he attached to the broom came loose from the grenade. Turns out I was thinking about it too hard 😅
I saw in the news a guy on a motorcycle was pissed at a car for some traffic misconduct, so he decided to kick the car when they were both speeding down the road. That only led to him toppling over and actually dying. Road rage, man smh
You know it's pretty ironic the guy with the bees if he actually knew anything he would know that smoke from fire or cigarettes or anything like that actually will calm bees down so he probably would have been pretty fine without the bag on his head.
Okay first, what kind of person has a bottle of gasoline in there house and second what kind of person doesn’t know that when fire and gasoline mix it because a bigger fire?
Darwin Awards: The inventor of the parachute died jumping off the Eiffel Tower to prove his invention worked. There are still dumber ways to die... and get an award.E Edit: Bees die when they sting so they won't sting anything other than an active threat.
1) who just has a jar of gasoline sitting on their kitchen counter. 2) what kind of moron lights a cigarette after not only drinking it, but getting some on you.
The dumbest was the plastic bag over the head. The others were accidents that happened while. or after they did something dumb, while this was dumb from the start, and as she said, why not pull it off or rip it open when you realized you could'nt breath.
You're warned to keep plastic bags away from kids 4 and under. It's generally accepted that after that age, a person can be trusted NOT to put a plastic bag over their head!
An alcoholic enema is very much a different type of drunk. Without your digestive system and your organs processing the alcohol while drinking, you feel/absorb pretty much all of the alcohol, so it’s like you’re drinking at least twice the amount. In short, just no
My favorite Darwin Award is the guy whose girlfriend was leaving him, so he had the bright idea to break her windshield with the butt of a rifle. It went off, killing him. Runner-up was the guy who decided to balance on a wheeled office chair on a balcony.
about the whale bone - they used whale baleens, not bones, but it was merged due to simplicity (and baleens do ossify, kinda) so it went down into history like that (it is common to see a whale baleen referred to as a whalebone, google it). So, baleens were used for multiple purposes, usually not as needles but as a material. anyway, someone could come to the conclusion that this sh*t is thin enough and, as they had multiple to go up there)). People in 19th century were using whales' parts as we use plastic/oil/metal/etc. nowadays
Now, with these kind of topics, since these are deaths that actually happened, you don’t really know what to feel, do feel sorry for them or do laugh at them for their stupidity?
I've seen the alcohol enema story on 1000 ways to die. Man gets throat operation, can't drink anymore. He asks his wife to administer an enema filled with sherry. They go to bed. She wakes up, he never does.
George repeating, "common sense", and then saying the people had to be high was funny. I guess he doesn't know that common sense is not so common, these days, which is why they have to put so many warnings on everything. XD
After a car crash that resulted in serious injuries, a Polish man’s BAC was taken and it was 1.480%. That’s the highest BAC ever recorded in known history. Doctors said he survived his brush with death due to drinking, but he later died due to his injuries from the car crash.
